{"id":32880,"date":"2017-04-24T11:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32880"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:38:19","slug":"chartreuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/chartreuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Chartreuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a forest in France<br \/>\nChartreuse can be seen<br \/>\nA greenness and verdancy<br \/>\nShe is the queen<br \/>\nOf the Fae so they say<br \/>\nA lady most fair<br \/>\nThe most profound of spirits<br \/>\nThat ever was there<\/p>\n<p>One midsummers morning<br \/>\nThe green goddess she<br \/>\nWas part of a what is known as an alchemy<br \/>\nShe lived in a convent<br \/>\nDown by a stream<br \/>\nSpinning the dandelion flowers<br \/>\nIt would seem<br \/>\nInto a fabric of sunlight and gold<br \/>\nWhich the king of the fae<br \/>\nHad apparently sold<\/p>\n<p>There was never more finer a cloth to be sewn<br \/>\nShe the keeper of light<br \/>\nAnd all she did own<br \/>\nWas weaved into the fabric<br \/>\nThe magic was there<br \/>\nThe dandelion clock told the time<br \/>\nAnd aware<\/p>\n<p>Of the message, she went to the forest that day<br \/>\nA vision of beauty in every way<br \/>\nTippy toed over a sparkling stream<br \/>\nAnd Fell head down a well all that way<br \/>\nIt would seem<\/p>\n<p>And at the bottom a little green fawn<br \/>\nAn angel in fact who wasn&#8217;t long born<br \/>\nShe exclaimed to the goddess why she  was there<br \/>\nAnd how how she just flew up into the air<br \/>\nThe goddess replied the reason  my dear<br \/>\nIs you are a fae fawn and it seems clear<br \/>\nAnd I am your queen then its good you are here<br \/>\nFor it must be meant kiss me now let us  see<br \/>\nIf you are the lost prince that i have to free<\/p>\n<p>She knelt down and held him and planted  a kiss<br \/>\nA great flash  of light not something you&#8217;d miss<br \/>\nAnd the fawn was transformed into a tall man<br \/>\nWith eyes like the lime leaves she last saw on Pan<br \/>\nWhat is your name sir pray tell me your name<br \/>\nAnd who was the sorceror who played a game<br \/>\nWho cast that spell deciding that you<br \/>\nShould be a green fawn down  a well filled with dew<\/p>\n<p>I know not dear queen but i am glad you were there<br \/>\nFor a fawn can be hunted to a life of despair<br \/>\nA number came by so I decided that I<br \/>\nWould jump into this well just wondering why<br \/>\nOr who would  come down to me and it was you<br \/>\nThe queen of the fae herself knowing what to do<br \/>\nCome with me now lets  fly said the queen to the sky<br \/>\nHold on tight we shall both be as green as can be<br \/>\nAs we fly in the sky perhaps alchemy<br \/>\nWill be our spirit  the great green charteuse<br \/>\nFor its only in Marseiiles this magic occurs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a forest in France Chartreuse can be seen A greenness and verdancy She is the queen Of the Fae so they say A lady most fair The most profound of spirits That ever was there One midsummers morning The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/chartreuse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32886,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions\/32886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}